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Chap. XVII.
HAMLET’S TOMB.
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Worried and tormented by the numerous visitors, who
allowed him no peace, he, at his own expense, erected
this monument in the public garden of the
Marien-lyst, caused it to be surmounted by a cross and a
half-erased inscription, fixing the date of Hamlet’s
death the 32nd of October, Old Style, the year a blank.
Admirably, too, it succeeded. The British public were
content, and the worthy merchant allowed to smoke his
pipe in peace under the grateful shade of his charmille.
It is, however, most singularly disagreeable to have
now, at the eleventh hour, one’s feelings wounded,
one’s illusions upset, and to be told suddenly how
Hamlet, instead of being a “ beautiful Danish prince,”
in “ black velvet and bugles,” and dying at Elsinore,
was nothing but a Jutland pirate, son of a rubbishing
“ smaa konge ” of the isle of Mors, in the Liimfiorde.
It is all of a piece with Hannibal not melting the Alps
with vinegar—an historical fact pooh-poohed by those
learned in chemistry of the present century. But I hope
to tell you more of Hamlet hereafter, when we again
visit Jutland.
The monks of the convent of Marienlyst distinguished
themselves greatly at the period of the Reformation,
especially one Paul Eliasen, commonly called
“Turncoat”—Vende-kaabe. He was nobody then, but later
was made Protestant Professor of Theology in
Copenhagen. Another monk, Franz Wormordsen, became
the first Protestant preacher in Scania—Skaane the
Danes write it—much to the credit of Marienlyst, for
she was but a poor convent.
Afterwards, within the domain of the monastery hard
by was founded a hospital for foreign seamen, and in the
days of Christian IV. our garden was known by the ap-
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